William Osler Quotes
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.
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You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
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I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
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Always make new mistakes.
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Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
